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Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of HappinessMon, 30 Mar 2015 08:06:06 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: The Elephant's Childhttps://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/as-if-we-dont-have-enough-scandals-now-fast-and-furious-is-back/#comment-23946
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 20:03:22 +0000http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39382#comment-23946Yes, That seems the only explanation. And our relations with Mexico seem far worse. As are our relations with Canada.In the entire Obama presidency I’ve never seen him take the blame for anything. He has never made a mistake. And his closest confidant, Valerie Jarrett, keeps telling him how wonderful he is, and the White House staff hold him in awe for his brilliance. He is a brilliant student of Alinsky.
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Sat, 02 Aug 2014 13:54:17 +0000http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39382#comment-23944The only plausible explanation for “Fast & Furious” at this point is that it was a PR stunt meant to rally support for the Democrats’ anti-gun agenda. For 18 months that F&F was in operation, Mexico was complaining through official about the guns that were tracked back to the F&F shops. That means that the ATF and US Attorney who were in charge of F&F knew about the murders. (NOTE: The fact that it was a law enforcement operation doesn’t give them the right to break the law. Even undercover agents cannot commit serious crimes without risking being prosecuted.) Why didn’t those responsible stop the operation when they learned of the first murder? The first 10 murders? The first 100 murders? They continued selling the guns knowing they would be used in murders. Although they claimed it was a law enforcement operation, there were no arrests from it. ATF proposed prosecutions several times to the US Attorney who declined. (Bear in mind, these agents regularly build cases against defendants.) This operation would still be going on if not for the ATF agent who panicked and blew the whistle on it.

A secondary issue is what was the State Department’s involvement in this matter. (Mexico is a foreign nation and that would make it the State Department’s interest.) What did Hillary know? Even Holder admits he “knew of the operation” but denies knowing the details and denies having informed Obama of it. But, if it reached Holder’s desk, then it should have reached Hillary’s also. It looks like F&F was a PR stunt like Waco. Bill’s role in the planning stages of Waco was never revealed to the public, but he obviously did take part because without the president’s signature on the orders, those tanks never would have left Fort Hood. I don’t know what Clinton was told to convince him to sign the orders, but I do know he should have been told that the DoJ’s established policy in that situation would have required that they “decapitate” the group first, then send in the tanks. That way, the leader of the group can’t rally them into resisting. He should also have been told that the way they did it was guaranteed to result in a siege, putting the people in the compound in danger and the law enforcement officers as well. Whoever planned the operation should have been punished. But no one ever was. Everyone involved was promoted within a year. It sounds like a case of “taking care of the mice so they don’t turn into rats.”